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epitome of incomprehensibility
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I was making fun of the poor radio. A woman was talking about her music, syllables she called healing chants set to tunes. "Ra" is for the sun (hey, even I know that - that's Egyptian mythology), "Sa" is for the moon (if I'm remembering this right; might've been "Ma") and so on.
And I was silly, saying, "Here's my sacred healing chant: do re mi fa so."
The father: "That's better, because I know what that means."
Am I playing into religious intolerance now? Don't want to do that. But I think many things can be "healing," even if they aren't sacred - even if they're a little bit silly.
The ironic thing (maybe) is I had this stuck in my head in the morning: "Mama say mama sah mama mah cassa" which has a history in popular music -http://americansongwriter.com/2009/02/the-strange-story-of-%E2%80%9Cmama-say-mama-sa-mama-coosa%E2%80%9D/ - though I don't know if it actually means anything. "Ma" is a comforting syllable, anyway. Simple, repeatable. No wonder it got attached to mothers. Ma Pa Ra Sa Di To Bu Ka Io Na Va La Lla Il Kha Ma. There. Some of those are bound to be Scrabble words. I'm healed and I should eat lunch now.
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